Cupeño language

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Cupeño
Spoken in:	Southern California, USA
Language extinction:	?
Language family:	Uto-Aztecan  Northern   Takic    Cupan     Cahuilla-Cupeno      Cupeño
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	nai
ISO 639-3:	cup
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Cupeño is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language, formerly spoken by the Cupeño people of Southern California, USA, who now speak English.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.2 Consonants 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

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[edit] Consonants

		Bilabial	Coronal		Palatal or Postalveolar	Plain		Labialized		Glottal
			Laminal	Apical		Velar	Uvular	Velar	Uvular
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Plosive and Affricate		p	t		(t)ʃ	k	q	kʷ (qʷ)		ʔ
Fricative	Voiceless		s	ʂ		x ~ χ		xʷ		h
	Voiced	β	ð			ɣ
Trill				r
Approximant	central				j			w
	lateral		l		ʎ

/kʷ/ is realized as [qʷ] before unstressed /a/ or /e/. [x] and [χ] appear to be in free variation.

/tʃ/ is realized as [ʃ] in syllable codas.

[edit] References

• Hill, Jane (2005). A Grammar of Cupeño. 

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:cup